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  1. Choose the right punchline. Why did the dinosaur cross the road?
    • Zebras hadn't evolved yet
    • Pelicans hadn't evolved yet
    • Chickens hadn't evolved yet
  2. The world's largest flowers, Raffelesia, were originally thought to be pollinated by what?
    • Tigers
    • Elephants
    • Kangeroos
  3. Madagascan moths insert their proboscis under the eyelid of what sleeping animal to drink its salty tears?
    • Birds
    • Crocodiles
    • Koalas
  4. Shrimp's hearts are...
    • in their heads
    • in their legs
    • Texan on their sleeves
  5. How do butterflies taste?
    • With their antennae
    • With their feet
    • Don't know... never tasted one
  6. Which bit of a cat has a unique ridged pattern, like a human fingerprint is unique?
    • The tail
    • The nose pad
    • The paw pads
  7. Rainbows - who discovered that sunlight falling upon a prism could split into its component colours?
    • Sir Isaac Newton
    • Charles Darwin
    • Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz
  8. In Australia, Santa's sleigh is not pulled by reindeer but instead by six white boomers. What are they?
    • Ocelots
    • Kangaroos
    • Blue tongue skinks
  9. Complete the sentence. How do you keep flies out of the kitchen? Put a load of manure in the...
    • Oven
    • Tumble dryer
    • Living room
  10. Mayu Yamamoto has developed vanillin; vanilla flavour and fragrance extracted from what?
    • Mushrooms
    • Cow dung
    • Mineral water
  11. Unlike mammals, birds don't urinate. Why is their poo white?
    • They excrete uric acid
    • They are anaemic
    • Just because
  12. Penicillin is one of the earliest discovered and widely used antibiotic agents, derived from the Penicillium mold. Who discovered it?
    • James Watt
    • Copernicus
    • Alexander Fleming
  13. There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than...
    • ...there are leaves on a tree
    • ...there are grains in a handful of sand
    • ...there are human beings on the surface of the earth
  14. What's the most important thing to learn in chemistry?
    • Avogadro's number.
    • Never lick the spoon.
    • Iron compounds are brown.
  15. Which vitamin have Australian Kakadu plums got about 50 times more of than an orange?
    • C
    • M
    • Z
  16. More germs are transferred shaking hands than...
    • ...kissing
    • ...saying good morning
    • ...sending an email
  17. For centuries it was traditional for UK families to eat goose or the head of a boar for Christmas. However this changed in the 16th Century when what bird was introduced to England?
    • Quail
    • Turkey
    • Ostrich
  18. The word "mulled" simply means heated and spiced. In Germany what is mulled wine more commonly known as?
    • Gluhwein
    • Eggnog
    • Mead
  19. How does King Wenceslas like his pizza?
    • Plenty of pepperoni
    • Deep pan, crisp and even
    • Hold the anchovies
  20. To make just one spoonful of honey, bees have to visit around...
    • 50 flowers
    • 500 flowers
    • 5000 flowers
  21. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming...
    • 1/10 of a calorie
    • 100 calories
    • 1 calorie
  22. Chose the missing word. How many ****** does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to hold the bulb, and the other to rotate the universe.
    • General relativists
    • Quantum physicists
    • Biochemists
  23. Which part of taxi drivers brains, associated with navigation, was found to be larger than average?
    • Temporal lobe
    • Hippocampus
    • Cerebellum
  24. What is the only non-metal which is liquid at room temperature?
    • Hydrogen
    • Bromine
    • Silicon
  25. Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.
    • True
    • False
  26. Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set...
    • is an episode of Allo Allo broadcast in 1982
    • is the background radiation from the Big Bang
    • is the first transmission by John Logie Baird
  27. What moves at 107,000 km per hour?
    • A speeding bullet
    • Earth about the Sun
    • Superman
  28. Who invented the thermometer in 1607?
    • Galileo
    • Crick and Watson
    • Marie Curie
  29. What is wrong with this joke? What has 50 legs but cannot walk? Half a centipede.
    • It's not funny
    • Centipedes are indestructible
    • Half a centipede has about 35 legs.
  30. Which animal could doctors prescribe to eat an infected wound clean?
    • Maggots
    • Wolf
    • Komodo dragon
  31. Which animal has been bred with see-through skin so you can see its internal organs?
    • Rats
    • Frogs
    • Monkeys
  32. I say I say I say, where do wasps come from?
    • Beijing
    • Stingapore
    • Tokyo
  33. The venom of the king cobra, the world's largest poisonous snake, is strong enough to kill a what?
    • Elephant
    • Frog
    • Blue-footed booby
  34. The Gastric Brooding Frog (alas now extinct) incubated its young inside its stomach. What acid is usually found in the stomach?
    • Sulphuric
    • Hydrochloric
    • Ant

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Britain’s National Bird (as voted for 40 years ago) is Erithacus rubecula. Better known as what?


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